{"id":218175,"date":"2025-07-17T18:10:24","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/california-farmers-identify-a-hot-new-cash-crop-solar-power"},"modified":"2025-07-17T18:10:24","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T23:10:24","slug":"california-farmers-identify-a-hot-new-cash-crop-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/california-farmers-identify-a-hot-new-cash-crop-solar-power","title":{"rendered":"California farmers identify a hot new cash crop: Solar power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/california-farmers-identify-a-hot-new-cash-crop-solar-power.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Imagine that you own a small, 20-acre farm in California\u2019s Central Valley. You and your family have cultivated this land for decades, but drought, increasing costs and decreasing water availability are making each year more difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine that you own a small, 20-acre farm in California\u2019s Central Valley. You and your family have cultivated this land for decades, but drought, increasing costs and decreasing water availability are making each year more difficult.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1506,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}